[Buildroot] Changes in the Buildroot autobuilders

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Jun 16 17:18:06 UTC 2013


Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:03:05 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> It would be nice if it were also possible to somehow "subscribe" to a
> list of packages and get a mail when any of these packages fails to
> build.

Indeed. Are we also talking about a daily e-mail?

> For example, I'd like to catch errors in the packages I've submitted.
> 
> I see two options for this:
>   - add a global MAINTAINERS file that list maintainers for each
>     actively maintained packages (a bit like the Linux kernel does);
>   - add a FOO_MAINTAINER variable to foo.mk (for each maintained 'foo'
>     package).
> 
> Would that be possible?

Yes that would be possible. For now, I don't have a particularly strong
opinion between the two solutions you proposed. Maybe the second one is
more Buildroot-ish?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
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